Educational and Public Service
Co-Founder of the Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, 1967; the Aspen Center for Physics, 1967–69; the US-USSR Cooperative Program in Physics, 1968; the Santa Fe Institute, 1982–84; and the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, 1998-1999.
Organizer or co-organizer of fifteen workshops and two summer schools of theoretical physics
Aspen Center for Physics: Vice-President, 1968–72;
Board of Trustees 1968-80; Honorary Trustee, 1980-; Member, 1980-
Santa Fe Institute: Co-Founder, 1984; Vice-President,
1984-86; Board of Trustees, 1984–2002; Chair, Board of Trustees, 1986–87; Founding Co-Chair, Science Board, 1987–96; Member, Science Board, 1987–1999; 2001-; External Faculty 1995-
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter: Founding Director and Member of Board of Trustees (now Board of Governors) and Science Steering Committee, 1999–present
National Academy of Sciences; Chair, Panel on Condensed Matter Physics, 1994–98
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council:
Physics Survey Committee, 1965–66;
Board on International Scientific Exchange, Founder and Chair, 1973–1977
US/USSR Workshops in Condensed Matter Theory, Founder and Co-Chair, 1968; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1988
US/USSR Commission on Cooperation in Physics, Founder and Co-Chair, 1975–80
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Chair, Physics Section and Class Membership Committee, 1996–99
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
T Division Advisory Committee: Member 1975-82; Chair, 1977–1982
Institute for Defense Analyses, Mentor, Defense Sciences Study Group, 1985–2000
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